IV in Hospice Care
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What are your upcoming week’s specific learning goals and objectives?
My next weeks’ learning goals and objectives are to positively impact the elderly by introducing a game or two to help pass the time and improve their quality of life by ensuring they get their IV doses as required.
What is your upcoming week’s detailed schedule at your community practice experience placement?
From early in the morning, depending on each individual scheduled timing, I will ensure that they receive their meals in a well-defined timeline that allows their bodies to function optimally. I will also make sure that they get the time to interact as this helps improve their lives and, possibly, slightly elongate their lives.
Were there any placement items/issues that occurred this week that you feel your instructor should be aware of that are private in nature and are more appropriately shared here than in the discussion board with your classmates?
I do not have any negative community practice experience from my placement. All the individual’s I interacted with were supportive and actively engaged with me. Although my experience was good, the working hours were extensive and exhaustive. There needs to be checked on how much time is spent on the field practice. There was also a hard time interacting with the patients as some got irritated more often. Most elderly individuals subjected to IV care do not like to interact with other people voluntarily; hence, there is a need for activities that help cheer them up and improve their emotional wellbeing.
Give a brief description of an objective you worked on this week. Make sure to cite at least one reference showing how your objective relates to the public health knowledge you’ve studied during this course or the public health course. You may choose to reference your e-text, journal articles, or videos you’ve studied during these courses or you may find an outside reference on your own to further enhance your public health knowledge and practices.
My major aim was to establish a close connection with the patients and make them feel cared for. The patients were mostly old patients on, possibly, their last days and needed encouragement and proper care to make them feel valued. According to (Buckingham, 2019), the elderly patients in IV care have almost no one readily available to take care of them and feel less valued by society’s society. This is why most senior citizens way past retirement age are sent to nursing homes; to not feel lonely. Their children and grandchildren, in most cases, are busy with their own lives and work; hence, they get little to no time to be with their elderly relatives.
References
Buckingham, R. W. (2019). Hospice care in the United States: the process begins. The Final Transition, 149-162.